I have been developing on php 5.3.
However our production server is 5.2.6.
I have been using
$schedule = '31/03/2011 01:22 pm'; // example input
if (empty($schedule))
$schedule = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');
else {
$schedule = dateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/Y h:i a', $schedule);
$schedule = $schedule->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
}
echo $schedule;
However that function is not available in 5.2
What is the easiest way to get around this (no chance of a php upgrade).
Create a Date With mktime() The optional timestamp parameter in the date() function specifies a timestamp. If omitted, the current date and time will be used (as in the examples above). The PHP mktime() function returns the Unix timestamp for a date.
Example. $date=date_create("2013-03-15"); echo date_format($date,"Y/m/d H:i:s");
To use the DateTime object you just need to instantiate the the class. $date = new DateTime(); The constructor of this object takes two parameters the first is the time value you want to set the value of the object, you can use a date format, unix timestamp, a day interval or a day period.
The DateTime::format() function is an inbuilt function in PHP which is used to return the new formatted date according to the specified format. Parameters: This function uses two parameters as mentioned above and described below: $object: This parameter holds the DateTime object.
just include the next code
function DEFINE_date_create_from_format()
{
function date_create_from_format( $dformat, $dvalue )
{
$schedule = $dvalue;
$schedule_format = str_replace(array('Y','m','d', 'H', 'i','a'),array('%Y','%m','%d', '%I', '%M', '%p' ) ,$dformat);
// %Y, %m and %d correspond to date()'s Y m and d.
// %I corresponds to H, %M to i and %p to a
$ugly = strptime($schedule, $schedule_format);
$ymd = sprintf(
// This is a format string that takes six total decimal
// arguments, then left-pads them with zeros to either
// 4 or 2 characters, as needed
'%04d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d',
$ugly['tm_year'] + 1900, // This will be "111", so we need to add 1900.
$ugly['tm_mon'] + 1, // This will be the month minus one, so we add one.
$ugly['tm_mday'],
$ugly['tm_hour'],
$ugly['tm_min'],
$ugly['tm_sec']
);
$new_schedule = new DateTime($ymd);
return $new_schedule;
}
}
if( !function_exists("date_create_from_format") )
DEFINE_date_create_from_format();
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